In this week’s episode (Season 1, Episode 7 -12/8), an FDA reviewer trades a case so that she can review a compassionate use request for a new drug at the hospital where her husband is the chief of staff. Her spouse was even was a participant in the proposal presentation to her for approval. Meanwhile, the owner of the hospital asks his chief of staff to be his doctor for his neurodegenerative disease—serving as the physician for his boss, in an area that is outside his specialty.…

]]>Don’t feel comfortable asking others if they are having regularly scheduled unprotected vaginal penile penetrative intercourse? Then don’t ask them if they are “trying” to conceivehttp://www.amc.edu/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/don-t-feel-comfortable-asking-others-if-they-are-having-regularly-scheduled-unprotected-vaginal-penile-penetrative-intercourse-then-don-t-ask-them-if-they-are-trying-to-conceive
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:44:03 +0000http://www.amc.edu/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/don-t-feel-comfortable-asking-others-if-they-are-having-regularly-scheduled-unprotected-vaginal-penile-penetrative-intercourse-then-don-t-ask-them-if-they-are-trying-to-conceive

One of the first questions a newly married straight couple
often gets from well-meaning friends and family is “when are you going to start
trying?” For those of you who are wondering what this question is getting at,
it is asking them if they are going to start to try to get pregnant. It is
interesting to analyze the language used here. People typically talk about
“trying” without ever specifying what they are in fact trying to do. Part of
the reason for this may be because people assume the meaning is obvious from
the context, such as “they’ve been trying for six months but haven’t gotten
pregnant yet.” Another reason probably has to do with our societal discomfort
talking about sex.

We use general and vague terms to
imply that we are talking about sex, but often don’t feel comfortable out right
discussing it. For example, the birth control pill is generally just referred
to as “the pill.” There is still shame and stigma surrounding sex, particularly
for women and sexual minorities, so it may be easier and safer for a woman to
talk about being on “the pill,” even though everyone knows what she is
referring to, than to overtly announce that she is using contraception.

Even though we as a society may not
feel comfortable explicitly discussing sex, we still feel that it is our
business. From a legal perspective, look at how carefully reproductive medicine
is regulated. For instance, certain reproductive procedures (e.g. abortion and
sterilization) can require waiting mandatory periods – something that is not
common in other areas of nonelective medicine. In the social realm, family,
friends, and even strangers feel they have the right to comment on a pregnant
woman’s behavior, such as by telling her what she should and should not eat or drink.

Returning to the topic of “trying,”
family, friends, and again even strangers often have no qualms about asking
women about whether they are trying to conceive. This is especially the case
for straight women who are recently married and women who are perceived as
being near or at the end of their “biological clock.”

Asking women whether they are
“trying” is problematic on many levels. First, it assumes that all women want
to become pregnant with genetically related children. While this may be true
for many women, it is not true for all women. There is already enough social
pressure on women in our pronatalist society to have biological children so
people should avoid adding to this pressure. Second, asking people if they are
“trying” is just a euphemism for asking them if they are having regularly
scheduled unprotected vaginal penile penetrative intercourse, which is usually
not considered an appropriate topic, especially among strangers. It is
typically seen as impolite to discuss sex under certain circumstances or with
certain people and discussing reproductive sex (that is, sex for which one of
the purposes is reproduction) should not be treated differently.

To summarize, if you don’t feel
comfortable asking others if they are having regularly scheduled unprotected
vaginal penile penetrative intercourse, then don’t ask them if they are
“trying” to conceive.

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]]>End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People with Life-limiting Conditions: Planning and Managementhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/KS0pQK03MYI/end-of-life-care-for-infants-children.html
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 09:30:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=1090ed5974ade2e29e9cb3f5e72548ffNICE has just released new guidance: "End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People with Life-limiting Conditions: Planning and Management."The Guideline covers the planning and management of end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young people (aged 0–17 years) with life-limiting conditions. It aims to involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, and improve the support that is available to them throughout their lives.

]]>TEDxFordhamUniversity: Lesson in Bioethics Given by Golden Girls | Dr. Elizabeth Yukohttps://ethicsandsociety.org/2016/12/07/tedxfordhamuniversity-lesson-in-bioethics-given-by-golden-girls-dr-elizabeth-yuko/
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:15:43 +0000http://ethicsandsociety.org/?p=3480More TEDxFordhamUniversity: Lesson in Bioethics Given by Golden Girls | Dr. Elizabeth Yuko]]>Holy Life Expectancy!http://www.peterubel.com/uncategorized/holy-life-expectancy/
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:13:46 +0000http://www.peterubel.com/?p=8203Look at this trend in life expectancy, U.S. vs other developed countries, as a function of healthcare spending: Keep in mind, I DO NOT think life expectancy is a good way to judge the quality of healthcare or the efficiency … Continue reading →

]]>Assisted Suicide: the Musicalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/ZqYjJAH7crA/assisted-suicide-musical.html
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:00:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=a66e32681dfe3c81d83b1eda4b1cbee7If you are in London next month, check out "Assisted Suicide: the Musical" at the Southbank Centre. There are many good reviews, including this one. "Opinion polls would have you believe that the majority of the UK population believe it’s a humane choice to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill or disabled people, but Liz Carr and many other disabled people disagree.""Confronting the lack of creative work exploring this most topical taboo, Liz Carr and other performers express an important and often unheard perspective through the medium of musical theatre."

]]>Is it Time for The NFL to Change Its Policy on Medical Marijuana?http://www.bioethics.net/2016/12/is-it-time-for-the-nfl-to-change-its-policy-on-medical-marijuana/
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:45:48 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?p=61136by Keisha Ray, Ph.D.

Seantrel Henderson is a 24-year-old player on The National Football League’s (NFL) Buffalo Bills. Henderson is currently suspended from playing in the NFL because for the second time he has violated the league’s substance abuse policy. The NFL bans performance enhancing drugs such as steroids as well as illicit drugs like cocaine. Henderson is facing suspension for his use of marijuana. A third violation of the league’s substance abuse policy would permanently ban Henderson from playing in the NFL.…

]]>Lessons Learned from a Beatbox Hearthttps://reflectivemeded.org/2016/12/06/lessons-learned-from-a-beatbox-heart/
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:18:02 +0000http://reflectivemeded.org/?p=403]]>Oliver Wendell Holmes on Death (audio from 1931)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/fYMfrxK6Xl0/oliver-wendell-holmes-on-death-audio.html
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:00:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=dfc3382ac7a3ed1e4d1e0af3bfc39975Here is a recording of Oliver Wendell Holmes commenting about death in 1931 on his 90th birthday. He retired from the court just a few weeks later. "In this symposium my part is only to sit in silence. To express one’s feelings as the end draws near is too intimate a task. But one thought that comes to me as a listener-in. The riders in the race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to oneself that the work is done.""But just as one says that, the answer comes: The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live, but to live is to function. That is all there is. And so I end with a line from a Latin poet, who uttered the message more than fifteen-hundred years ago, Death, death, plucks my ear, and says, ‘Live. I am coming.'" (HT: John Blackman)

]]>Looking Back at the Bioethics Commission’s Bloghttp://blog.bioethics.gov/2016/12/05/looking-back-at-the-bioethics-commissions-blog/
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:00:04 +0000http://blog.bioethics.gov/?p=2125Jahi McMath Defendants Seek to Unseal Transcriptshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/3GRJf6N8Mao/jahi-mcmath-defendants-seek-to-unseal_5.html
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:30:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=a885a690d5e47819457bddb0c584ab31For three years, the family
of Jahi McMath has made numerous public claims that she is alive.

The medical defendants in her malpractice lawsuit now want to rebut those
claims by using evidence presented during hearings in December 2013. But
those records are under seal. The family opposes
the defendants' joint motion, citing Jahi's right to confidentiality.
A hearing is scheduled for December 13, 2016.

Furthermore, for those wanting to "catch up" on what this case is all
about, the plaintiffs’ opposition brief provides a nice recap of the medical
malpractice claims. It also provides a recap of the evidentiary basis
that Jahi is now alive. Highlighting is mine.

"Here, based upon
medical experts' evaluations of Jahi since Judge Grillo's ruling in 2013, she
no longer fulfills standard brain death criteria, due to her ability
to specifically respond to stimuli. The distinction
between random cord-originating movements and true responses to command is
crucial to diagnosis of brain death. Jahi is capable of intermittently
responding intentionally to a verbal command."

"Additionally, the
international team of medical experts who gathered to observe, test and
analyze Jahi's unprecedented progress in the fall of 2014 saw evidence of brain
activity in the EEG. They observed the brain activity increase and become
'readily identifiable and profound' when Jahi's mother spoke to Jahi.
A long and thorough MRI was conducted in which they 'unequivocally saw
the presence of brain structure including the evidence of ribbons in the brain."

"This is critical as it showed that the brain, although damaged, was there
structurally.' Nine months after Jahi was declared brain dead, the
experts 'would have expected to see her brain had liquefied. It clearly was
not.' Additionally, the experts looked for evidence of blood flow. 'Blood
flow was clearly evident. This does not happen if a patient is brain dead.'"

"In
overruling Defendants' demurrer to Plaintiffs' personal injury claim, this
Court has properly rejected Defendants' argument that once their physicians
opined in December 2013 that Jahi was brain dead for the purpose of removing
life support, her death became static, fixed and permanent, and Jahi is
absolutely precluded from alleging and proving that she is, in fact,
alive."

"To the contrary, her
condition has changed dramatically since Judge Grillo's
ruling in December 2013 - among other changes, there are vast areas of
structurally and relatively preserved brain, tests demonstrate intracranial
blood flow consistent with the integrity of the MRI and inconsistent with brain
death, and Jahi underwent menarche (her first ovulation cycle) and began breast
development."

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This course explores public health law through the lens of current issues in population health. Prescription drug overdose and the zika virus have captured the attention of both policy-makers and the public, as have topics such as gun violence, obesity, access to care, vaccine refusal, medical marijuana, and smoking. We will examine the leading causes of preventable death, disease, and injury, both in and out of the spotlight. Students will analyze the underlying social, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to or detract from community health and well-being, as well as legal strategies to address those factors. In the process, the course introduces students to the fundamentals of public health law, including those constitutional, statutory, and administrative laws that empower or mandate government to act to advance community health and those that curtail governmental power to do so.

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Director July Dash (Daughters of the Dust and Scratch Line) at the MVFF 39 October 14, 2016

As a member of the National Writers Union and affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, it is my profound honor to represent the California Film Institute in presenting director Julie Dash the Mill Valley Film Festival Award. This award honors the excellence of her lifetime body of work.” —None of these words could I have imagined coming from my mouth. But, on October 12, 2016, that is what I said at the 39th Mill Valley film festival. MVFF is one of the longest running Film Festival’s in North America with an audience this year of more than 65,000.

Recently digitally remastered by the Coleman Library, director Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST aesthetic remainsincomparable with a message persistently timely. An African American family prepares to leave their Gullah Island home. They and their descendants have lived on that land since long before the Emancipation Proclamation. Tensions between the power of the familiar and perils of a new existence are made abundantly clear by a matriarch. She is a first degree relative to those brought as slaves from Africa.

The re-released version ofDAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, screened at the MVFF39, was preceded by the premiere of Dash’s provocative new short film, STANDING @ THE SCRATCH LINE. This new work is a part of the Great Migration Project. It lyrically traces the arrival of the first Africans on the Gullah Island shore their generations of migration from the Gullah Geechee Lowcountry to Philadelphia, PA. The film links the survival of a people to the strengths of the sacred architecture of African American Churches.

Filmmaker Julie Dash’s screen voice is an offspring of the “LA Rebellion”. The LA Rebellion creative movement emerged from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television during the late 1960s and 1970s. The Rebellion was, and is, the bard of complex justice issues, while also an anti-venom for racism and classism.

Twenty years after the LA Rebellion, in 1991, internationally recognized, Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, was the first feature-length film by an African American woman with United States theatrical release. The film coincided with a period when we, in clinical medical ethics, were defining the importance of cross-cultural communication in medicine — particularly at the edges of life — birth and death.

The battle was to get an understanding of race class and culture into the medical curriculum.

In a real way Ms. Dash’s work help to combat health disparity across race, class and culture. Her's is an anthropological short hand bundling the reality of what had before been like talking only about the reflection of stars — Now, one can actually show the celestial body of cultural complexity to colleagues and say, “ This is part of what you are working with when you diagnose a person with a life threatening illness, with its fears, attendant loss of family and culture.” Director Julie Dash manages to demonstrate that a culture can be simultaneously different from others, while expressing universal concerns.

Other works by Ms. Dash are THE ROSA PARKS STORY, INCOGNITO, FUNNY VALENTINES, LOVE SONG and SUBWAY STORIES. Coming soon is her film TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL, about writer- actor-griot-culinary anthropologist Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.

As physician ethicists, we often receive consultations where there is no clear ethical question, but rather, discomfort around value judgments. We have struggled to articulate the meaning of colleagues’ morally uncomfortable experiences. The traditional definition of moral distress is quite restrictive and offers no vocabulary for our observations. Clinicians know something is wrong and that it might be of a moral nature. However, they don’t know the “right” thing to do, and the institution isn’t preventing them from acting.…

A September article in Bioethics by Julian Savulescu and Udo Schuklenk has lit a fire under the Christian media. According to such news sources as The Stream (a conservative Christian website) and author William Briggs (you have to read his bio) “Bioethicists Want to Purge Christian Doctors.” This reaction to the Bioethics article is further evidence that we see what we want in writing rather than what is actually written.

]]>Is This Enough Competition for You?http://www.peterubel.com/uncategorized/enough-competition/
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:00:39 +0000http://www.peterubel.com/?p=8200Some people look at the figure below, and say that too few insurance companies have too much of the market for Medicare Advantage (a program that allows Medicare recipients to get private coverage). But I look at it and think … Continue reading →

Grey’s Anatomy (Season 13, Episode 9). A building collapses when a landlord has failed to make necessary repairs a year after an earthquake. The landlord mistakes a resident for a priest and confesses that his neglect was the cause of the tragedy that has led to much morbidity and mortality. The resident wonders if he has to preserve confidentiality like a priest or if information told to a doctor is different. A fellow resident tells him that since it’s not medically related, he has no obligation to maintain this particular confidence.…

]]>Another Obamacare Failure: It Wasn’t a Job Killer!http://www.peterubel.com/uncategorized/another-obamacare-failure-wasnt-job-killer/
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:31:44 +0000http://www.peterubel.com/?p=8198According to many conservative pundits, Obamacare is a job killer. Five days before Obama signed the law, in fact, speaker John Boehner declared that the president was pushing “his job killing government takeover of healthcare that will hurt small businesses.” Years after … Continue reading →

]]>Handing over the Control in Breast Reconstruction Surgeryhttp://www.amc.edu/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/handing-over-the-control-in-breast-reconstruction-surgery
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:05:55 +0000http://www.amc.edu/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/handing-over-the-control-in-breast-reconstruction-surgeryA company named AirXpanders is in
the process of developing a medical device that will give women a sense
of control over breast reconstruction surgery. The name of the product is AeroForm and it is currently under
review by the FDA. It
is approved in Europe and sold in Australia. AeroForm is currently in clinical trials.Using an implant is the current
standard of care for breast reconstruction. In order for an implant to achieve its
designed purpose, space must be made in the breast tissue.Before AeroForm, this space was achieved
through multiple visits to the doctor’s office using a saline injection. It was
a painful process for some women and could take months. AeroForm is a wireless,
needle-free tissue expansion device.A
device is surgically inserted into the breast that will deliver small amounts
of CO2 gas to expand the tissue as the saline used to do. The release of the
gas is controlled through an internal valve signaled by a wireless dose
controller operated by the patient. The patient can release the gas at her/his
own rate to make it less painful and can be done at home.It also can speed up the process from months
to weeks. The device is more expensive than saline injections but it reduces
the numbers of physician’s visits, so cost is comparable. The
process of restoring something so intimate may be embarrassing as well as
medicalizing part of one’s identity.This
device may be a way to restore lost confidence for breast cancer
survivors.Losing one’s breast can be
damaging to one’s identity. We as a society equate breasts with feminine
identity. Without breasts, according to society, a woman becomes less desirable
or less feminine. A primary goal of reconstructive surgery is to restore the
bodily image of what is socially accepted, but also what the patient wants
personally. Positive body image is an important part of self-identity and
confidence and positive body image connects to what is socially accepted.
Although this device is arguably reinforcing the social norm that women need to
have breasts, this device is ultimately restoring confidence and identity. Allowing
women to have a role in this medical process allows for restoring some of that
lost privacy and identity in an already emotional experience. This restored
control can also have a psychological effect on the patient during recovery. In
a sense, this device is following the trend of our society to favor patient
autonomy and increasing patient involvement in healthcare.

But
when is patient control too much? Physicians may still remain cautious with
devices such as these because it is moving treatment away from the known,
controlled setting of the physician’s office to the patient’s home. This is the
balance between respecting patient autonomy and beneficence. The downside of
using this device at home is if there are any issues during the gas release, a
physician will not be there immediately. Some may argue that care outside a
physician’s office is not beneficial but there are also a lot of benefits to
self-administration of care like this case. This device is only a small part of
the entire reconstructive process. But society should still keep in the back of
its mind that physicians still have a very relevant role to play in health care
decisions, no matter the location of treatment.

]]>James L. Bernat – Brain Death: Consensus and Controversieshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/fOSC6GWT9c8/james-l-bernat-brain-death-consensus.html
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:01:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=10f1fb5b7810fd60f487dba96fcc8b81Here is a superb overview video on the medical and philosophical aspects of brain death. James L. Bernat, professor of Neurosicence at Dartmouth, delivered this lecture in Barcelona at the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation on November 15, 2016.

The opening and closing films of the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival were both romances, different from one another as night and day. The starting film was about elusive love. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND is a romantic musical whose comedic elements facilitate the dramatic. It feels like a cross between Preston Sturges' Sullivan’s Travels and Singing in the Rain. LA LA LAND’s enduring impression is a sensibility for people defined by creative aspirations.

The title, LA LA LAND, is a double entendre. The more concrete allusion calls up the musical note ‘La,’ as in the Rogers and Hammerstein’s Sound of Music, “La is just to follow so.” What marks the feature as a high concept film is the other meaning— the rarely attainable, though ubiquitous, high hopes for creative success in the unreal Los Angeles — while moving into the developmental stage of adult intimacy.Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone act (and dance) in subtle ways. Their performances are beyond being the coat hangers for music, choreography, and the exquisite mostly on location scenery. Complexity of the main characters is clarified by the arrival of the co-star, John Legend, at the mid-point of the film. He draws the arrow telling Gosling’s character, a musician, that there is only one path to follow. That way pushes him away from his lover, Stone, a writer.The opening scene of La La Land is set squarely in one of the plagues of Los Angeles life. The setting, time, and characters shout that you are entering a cross cultural zone, where fantasy is allowed. Replete with classic musical film homages, Justin Hurwitz’s score shares the passion of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, rather than the showmanship of an Arthur Freed musical. We quickly learn the rival gangs are the tensions between the creative aspirations in the heads of each star, fighting for attention and love.Hurwitz’s uses the advantage of Jazz, Blues and Rock & Roll, having been racially integrated after the glory days of the classic 1940s and 50s musicals, to broaden the range of emotions. The love theme of La La Land represents the magical inner voice of the protagonist’s relationship. When you hear this film’s music forty years from now, be forewarned, if it made you cry this year, it will then. How does a Romantic Musical help Bioethics?LA LA LAND shows tension between the ‘competing goods’ of the noble aspirations of intimacy and creativity. The film is a captivating metaphor, showing a version of goal attainment reached through an unexpected narrative path. Other creative intents are not unlike those of a surgeon in training, or a doctoral student dreaming to cure global warming, in conflict with raising their families. The shared challenge is not aiming for competence but greatness.Casuistry can exist beyond ‘the word.’ When visuals are added to written narratives additional neuropsychological features join ‘the case’ presented. Even a single photograph is a visual narrative. Music, as in LA LA Land, is interpreted even more subjectively than visual cues. “Research into the bodily basis of musical meaning has focused on conceptual metaphor and image theory but the processes whereby embodied experience becomes relevant to music conceptualization remains largely unexplained.” We do not know exactly why the blues is cathartic, for some and not others though we know it is so. Related are examples where sound, say of a bottle of soap falling, has been known to result in smelling soap for some people sans attendant visual stimulus. It is clear that the sound of music has a narrative language specific to its own form. The core of the “musical mimetic hypothesis” suggests we understand sounds in comparison to sounds we have made ourselves, and this process of comparison involves tacit imitation, or mimetic participation, which in turn draws on the prior embodied experience of sound production. That is second hearing draws a reaction to the first hearing of the primary sound and stimulates a similar feeling and physical response. Each note delves into the influence that note has had in one’s life. If this is true, clearly the Casuistic case forLA LA LANDis maximized by the music itself.LA LA LAND is a choreography of the mind, expressed by over a hundred dancers, actors and musicians along with nearly as many crew. It takes a lot of nerve and talent to wield such a team. Luckily for the audience composer Hurwitz choreographer Mandy Moore (Silver Lining's Playbook), cinematographer Linus Sandgren (American Hustle), and writer-director Damien Chazelle are chutzpah endowed. LA LA LAND is a film to watch and hear. It opens in theaters December 16, 2016.Casuistry uses cases or narratives to illustrate ethical conflicts and their resolutions. Despite the potential abuse of Casuistry, Medicine and Law are both fields where cases are applied to ethical decision making. Religious books, literature, drama and film can also be used in Casuistic analysis of moral dilemmas. At its core, Casuistry requires solving a second unrelated case by using the logic of the original narrative — so stories need not be medical or science based to argue Bioethics.

]]>Medical Ethics at Minnesota Children’s Hospitalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/JgaZMiXMcRg/medical-ethics-at-minnesota-childrens.html
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:30:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=3f6ebffdd95958c14e249088809726f973% of Minnesotans Support Medical Aid in Dyinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalFutilityBlog/~3/nTSen8fG-6I/73-of-minnesotans-support-medical-aid.html
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:21:00 +0000http://www.bioethics.net/?guid=c1be4e3df8857a51dfe4e8109eed7932Derek Humphry blogs about a new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner survey that finds broad and deep support for medical aid in dying in Minnesota.In principle, Minnesotans believe that medical aid in dying should be a legal option for terminally ill individuals by a margin of 53 points, 73 percent – 20 percent, including 55 percent who strongly believe so.The breadth of the support for this legislation is striking. There is bi-partisan support for this legislation and support across generations, geography and religious faiths.Finally, the survey also found that 61 percent of voters would be more likely to support a candidate who supports legislation providing a legal option for medical aid in dying while just 21 percent would oppose a candidate who does.